I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.